Within trading communities, it gets pretty obvious over time: not many traders succeed. Most new traders in the Tradingview chat or in my private groups over the years only stick around for a little while. They get beaten down by overtrading and emotional trading, risk mismanagement sometimes coupled with outright bad luck. They blow up an account or two and they're gone forever. And that's exactly the type of people running around these forums calling TA bullshit and blaming "whales" and "manipulators" for their losses.

If you stick around the Speculation forum or any crypto trading groups, you'll see over time only the strong survive. The old hands who have been here for 3, 5, 7 years......they're still around because they're profitable traders. And we're a small minority.